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their treatment. W 1768, Lind published an essay on diseases of Europeans in hot climates (An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates), which was the main source of information on tropical [...] Scurvy, 1753) Lind published essays on fevers and infections (1763), on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates (1768), on jail distemper (1773), and on the most effectual means of preserving [...] basic education (he was graduated from high school in Edinburgh) and in the 1731 began his medical studies. He was a student (apprentice) of physician-surgeon George Langlands. After completing his training
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Benjamin Thompson (1753 – 1814), known as Count Rumford after 1792, 1 was an American-born British officer who had fought on the British side during the American War of Independence. After gathering both [...] devices to determine pulse and body temperature. His findings are the first results from a long-term study on human metabolism. Energy in Combustion Whereas Santorio concentrated on the weight of the nourishment [...] conducted were in the area of the new organic chemistry, a branch which scientists thought could not be studied outside of living organ- isms.13 Investigators in organic chemistry were trying to determine the
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ion, including a massive study of over two-hundred-and-eighty thou- sand prisoners in Javanese prisons, Eijkman managed to find the cure. Using the findings of Eijkman’s study, scientists were able to [...] Vorderman, the supervisor of the Civil Health De- partment of Java, Eijkman undertook a massive study in 1895. This study had surveyed nearly two- hundred-and-eighty thousand prisoners by the time it was completed [...] the Netherlands. In Zaandam, he began his education at his father’s school. He progressed in his studies with ease and passed his university-entrance exams in 1875, at the age of 17. After high-school
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connections. About three years after the day the initial idea had struck Joule, he was sitting in his office and looking back at his achievements with re- spect to this experiment: He had designed a machine [...] of heat was written by Peter Heering, with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union and the University of Flensburg, Germany. 2 Story: The hard work of experimenting Storytelling
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collaborat- ed with him to examine heat changes when gases expand and contract. Results of these studies paved the way for the development of the refriger- ator. Their first joint research was on the thermal [...] Heering. Biography: James Prescott Joule was written by Katarzyna Przegiętka with the support of the European Commission (project 518094-LLP-1-2011-1-GR-COMENIUS-CMP) and Polish Association of Science Teachers
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regular teenage boy known for his good sense of humor and infectious laughter. After seven years studying at the University of Glasgow, William Thomson’s father encouraged him to continue his education [...] later led other scientists to important discoveries. It was in Regnault’s laboratory that he began to study the science behind the steam engine, which remained an interest to him when he returned to Cambridge [...] Joule’s work in the scientific community. One of the more popular topics in science at the time was studying the relationship between pressure and temperature in a certain volume of gas. Scientists at the
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ses applica- tions industrielles. Paris. Olson RG (1970) Count Rumford, Sir John Leslie, and the Study of the Nature and Propagation of Heat at the Begin- ning of the Nineteenth Century. In: Annals of [...] Mechanical Value of Heat: Instruments of Precision and Gestures of Accuracy in Early Victorian England. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 26, 73 - 106. Sichau C (2000): Die Joule-Thomson-Experimente: [...] eines Experiments. In: NTM 8:223-243. Smith C & Wise MN (1989): Energy and Empire: ¬A bio- graphical study of Lord Kelvin (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge - New York - Port Chester - Melbourne – Sydney
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Mazarin), which was known for its advanced teaching and focus on Ex- act and Natural Sciences. Here, he studied math- ematics and astronomy. Young Lavoisier was also interested in botany, geology, and mineralogy [...] courses. He left Collège Mazarin in 1761. In the same year, persuaded by his father, he took up Law studies at the University of Paris and obtained his Bachelor’s degree on September 6, 1763. One year later [...] later on July 26, 1764, he acquired a license to run a solicitor practice. It was likely due to his studies in Law that his works were so well written, with their meanings always easily comprehensible, clear